Canonical isn’t pleased with cloud providers who are publishing broken, insecure images of Ubuntu despite being notified several times. In a blogpost, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, and the Executive Chairman and VP, Product Strategy at Canonical, made the situation public for all to see. An excerpt from the blog post: We are currently in dispute with a European cloud provider which has breached its contract and is publishing insecure, broken images of Ubuntu despite many months of coaxing to do it properly. The home-grown images on the cloud, VPS and bare metal services of this provider disable fundamental security mechanisms and modify the system in ways that are unsupportable. They are likely to behave unpredictably on update in weirdly creative and mysterious ways (the internet is full of fun examples). We hear about these issues all the time, because users assume there is a problem with Ubuntu on

Original URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/K9mQwCZ80ps/taking-a-stand-against-unofficial-ubuntu-images

Recent Posts: <CONTENT /> v.6

Lets have a look on what we have on this article: Setting up Apache 2 in Linux Subsystem for Windows 10 Setting up MySQL Server in Linux Subsystem for Windows 10 Setting up PHP in Linux Subsystem for Windows 10 Visual Studio Code and PHP Extensions Few tweaks to work on PHP, Visual Studio Code …

There are some good pointers and excellent tips in Web Development and Advanced Techniques with Linux on Windows (WSL) that are useful if you’re using WSL as part of your dev toolkit. Getting the same envs, including PATH, running across both systems is handy. It’s cool to be able to develop in Windows and test …

Virtually nowhere to be found were the 90 percent of lawyers who practice outside biglaw, the business clients who do not run mega-corporations, the access-to-justice community, or those disenfranchised from the legal system. — Five Days, Two Conferences, One Echo Chamber | LawSites https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2019/02/five-days-two-conferences-one-echo-chamber.html